The family of the last known U.S. hostage in Afghanistan, Mark R. Frerichs, is issuing a desperate appeal to President Biden to pull the necessary strings for the former Navy diver's release, NaveedAJamali discusses.
But the fate of one man unmentioned by Biden lies in the balance: Mark R. Frerichs, the last known U.S. hostage in Afghanistan.completed his historic peace deal with the Taliban,was first to report that Frerichs, then 57 and working as a contractor, was kidnapped days earlier by individuals believed to be members of the Haqqani network, a powerful and influential group aligned with the Taliban.
Bashir Noorzai is an influential Pashtun tribal leader with reportedly friendly ties in high places, from Pakistan's Inter-Intelligence Services to Afghanistan's then-President Hamid Karzai and the Haqqani network that runs the badlands between the two countries. He's also been described as a close friend of late Taliban leader Mohammed Omar.
One picture that has emerged in the years since, however, is one of two men who traveled to the other's country in the midst of war without any obvious intention of causing harm and were caught up in a wider geopolitical web that would imprison them indefinitely. And while they've almost certainly never met, their fates have become intertwined.
For one, few consider Afghanistan to be part of the Middle East. Most importantly, however, the country has for decades been a hotbed for opiate production, an industry with which many factions have ties, not just the Taliban or Haqqani network. Poppy cultivation for drugs has only blossomed over the course of two decades of U.S. military presence there.
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